Truss.



G. R. HARDING.

TRUSS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, 1908.

Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

K, also on wire e. rl`his clip is formed with a double loop, 7c and 7c, with intermediate portion 7c, which is a spring.

In the position of the clip shown in F 4t the sides 7c and la bear closely against the bar e, but by pressing them together they are brought more nearly tansverse the line otf bar e, so they can be slipped with pad l) to any position. Being released, they tly back into oblique position relative to the bar c and hold the pad where placed. At the point where the wire returns on itseltl in the rear, as at m` and m, such ends are connected by strap and buckle M and M or other suitable means, so that these ends can be brought together with a desired degree.

In Fig. 5 is shown a different means for holding the pad. A clip O is provided to rest on the pad with a spring end bearing on the wire c and fashioned with a swell 0 by pressing which such bearing is released.

The pads A and A are slidably mounted on the section 2'. by eyelets or other suitable means represented by 2, so that they can be slid along said bar to any point or adjustment, the mounting being such as to retain them normally in given position. lt will be understood that the same or like means employed for mounting of the rear pads may be here used.

It will be seen that from the very construction of the truss there is a spring pressure between the front and the rear portions, the degree of which is determined by the form of curvature given to the loops at the hip portions. rlhese loops are not in contact with the body but lie so close to it as to be out ot the way of any inconvenience to the wearer. By shaping these loops greater or less degree ot' pressure between the t'ront pads and the rear pads can be applied as the wearer may desire, and the same truss may be used by different persons within a certain variation of size. rlhe rear pads being connected by the strap, when the truss is adjusted, remain in place. As the truss may be, by such strap adjusted, to ditferent conditions, the rear pads are suitably positioned and held normally in given place, as desired. rlhe side portions of the truss being integral in front and drawn together at the back form a iframe circling the body of a given compass or size, witha given resiliency or pressure between the front and the back which maintains the truss in proper position with suitable pressure at the point of rupture. The pads themselves it should be noted do not require any resiliency in their construction, being as amatter of tact made practically solid with suitable covering. The front pads are ot a form which has been found most adaptable for use and are adjustable laterally on the supporting rod, the pressure being applied through each loop on each side of the body. By bending portion a or a the front pads may be further adjusted to bring pressure to bear at the proper point.

It will be noticed that the crossing of the strands in the front and the rear adds to the stiitiuess otx the truss, and by changing the relative positions of these strands the position ot' the several pads may be altered. As the strands are double around the body, the wire does not need to be of such heavy material as otherwise would be necessary, and the strands crossing each other and being integral t'orm a more rigid truss than as though they were separate and parallel (not lying against each other at the point of crossing), and that the pads are less likely to be disarranged or the truss to be misplaced.

llaving described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Fatent, is:

l. truss comprising a resilient metallic 'trame in two hip strands on each side the saine crossing each other at the front and rear, with pads slidably mounted on the trame, and means for adjust-ably connecting` the ends ot the trame at the rear, substantially as described.

2. A truss comprising a metallic frame of resilient material Jormed of a single piece ot metal having its front, side and rear portions integral and formed with a double strand throughout except at the medial front portion, with the side portions of the same being brought to the rear of the hip and there provided with means for adjustably connecting them, substantially as described.

3. A. truss having at the front an integral transverse padsupporting member, pads thereon adjustable ot the length thereof, the said frame being extended in one portion i''roin the said straight section around each side of the body to the rear, and returning from the rear in a like side section on each side of thc body and terminating in a pad adj ustably mount-ed on said transverse men bei', substantially as described.

et. L truss having at the front a straight transverse pad-supporting member, pads adjustably mounted on said straight portion, the said traine being extended in one portion from the said straight section around each side of the body to the rear and returning from the rear in a like side section on each side ot the body twice crossing the tormer section and terminating in a pad mounted at the front, and a pad mounted in adjustable support on the rear portion of the truss, one on each side of the back, substantially as described.

5. n a truss, a pad slidably mounted on a section thereof, a clip having an eye on each side ot the mounting of said pad normally bearing against the pad-supporting section of the truss but adapted to be released from such contact whereby to alter the position of the pad on the truss, substantially as described.

6. lin a truss, a pad slidably mounted thereon and a clip mounted inoperative connection with the pad and having means normally engaging the adjacent portion of the truss and releasable by pressure on the clip whereby to alter the position of said pad, substantially described.

T. truss having a frame formed of a wire with its middle portion forming a padearrying bar at the front of the wearer, each end portion being bont thence upward around the hip to the back, one portion around euch side, and at the back forming a pad-carrying` bar at one side of the center ot the back, and thence each being bent upward and around the hip and at the front having a pad, substantiallyT as described.

8. A truss having a frame formed of a wire bent in double strands on each side of the body, the said strands crossingeach other at the front and back, the strands beingl formed with a straight portion at the back, one on each side and a pad slidably mounted on each said portion, a bar consisting of an integral strand oit Wire, its medial portion being formed oit straight pad-carrying seetion at the front and being bent thence upward around the hip with a. loop portion at the back providing on each side or' the baci; a straight pad-carrying` portion, the said strand being bent from the back to the front and at the front having a pad adjustably mounted on the front pad-cai'rying` portion, and means for adjusting the said several pads to give lined positions, substantially as described.

9. fr truss formed of a wire bent into two hi p-cireling portions, the ends being brought to the itront and carrying pads adjustably mounted on the middle portion oit the wire at the front, and means adjustably connect'4 ing the ends in the back at the point of the return bend of each hip-circling portion of the wire, substantially as described.

in testimony whereoip4 I ai'iix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE HARDNG.

lVitnesses Cnns'ro A. OWEN, E. T. Dn GIORGI. 

